Chaumont Bay fishing: Chinook Salmon, American Eel, White Perch

Bay · New York · Black River, 21.1 mi away

Chaumont Bay, New York: Chinook Salmon. 92.4% of it is 35 feet deep or less. 1 trailer ramp. At least 65.6 ft deep. 31,400 fish stocked since 2015.

Chaumont Bay fishing: Chinook Salmon, American Eel, White Perch 1

Bay

Surface area: 13,138 acres20.5 mi²from the mapped waterbody polygon; varies with water level
Maximum depth: 65.6 ftdeep
Average depth: 14.2 ft
Fish species: 3
Access points: 1
Access: open to the public
Nearest town: Black River21.1 mi

Chaumont Bay fishing: Chinook Salmon, American Eel, White Perch

Target species: Chinook Salmon, American Eel, White Perch
Boat: 1 ramp or launch on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Chaumont Bay, 2 lanes.

The bay

Chaumont Bay covers 13,138 acres in New York, across Jefferson County. It is a bay: 92.4% of it is 35 feet deep or less; the deepest figure on record is 65.6 feet (20 m), as published by NOAA NCEI Great Lakes, a figure without a map of the bottom. Our records hold 3 species for this water.

3 target fish, led by Chinook Salmon

Chinook Salmon — Feeding water: 50–60°F.
American Eel — Feeding water: 60–75°F.
White Perch — Feeding water: 50–75°F.

Depth and bottom

Deepest figure on record: 65.6 ft (20 m), as published by NOAA NCEI Great Lakes. We hold no survey map of this bottom, so we show no depth bands. 92.4% of the water is 35 feet or shallower. We hold 53 depth contours for this water, drawn from 1,036 soundings.

0–5 ft: 9.5% of the water
5–10 ft: 8.5% of the water
10–15 ft: 13.3% of the water
15–20 ft: 22% of the water
20–25 ft: 21.6% of the water
25–30 ft: 10.7% of the water
30–35 ft: 6.8% of the water
35–40 ft: 3.2% of the water
40–45 ft: 1.9% of the water
45–50 ft: 1.1% of the water
50–55 ft: 0.6% of the water
55–60 ft: 0.6% of the water
60–65 ft: 0.2% of the water

1 ramp or launch on this water

On this water we hold 1 trailer ramp.

Aerial imagery: USDA NAIP 2019 — USDA Farm Service Agency, NAIP 2019 aerial imagery (USGS The National Map) · Public domain

Chaumont Bay — 2 lanes. New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation.

The place listed has no fee or opening hours on file: a blank means we hold no such field, not that it is free or always open, and this list may not be complete.

Water and conditions

Our water temperature readings average 75°F; they do not cover the whole year, so this is not a yearly average. These readings span 2018–2023.

What is hard here

Wind is the limit, not the fish: 13,138 acres of open water build a short steep chop, and there is no shelter in the middle. Only 1 public ramp is on file, so the launch decides where you fish.

Where this data comes from

NOAA ENC — NOAA Electronic Navigational Charts: soundings: class A, a survey of the bottom.
NOAA NCEI Great Lakes — NOAA Great Lakes bathymetry: class B, a depth figure measured and published by an agency, without a bottom map.
NOAA National Bathymetric Source (S-102 ed3.0.0) — NOAA S-102 bathymetric surfaces: contours: class A, a survey of the bottom.
NOAA ENC — NOAA Electronic Navigational Charts: depth contours: class A, a survey of the bottom.